Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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At the RDS count centre, Matt Treacy and Ben Scallan discuss the tallies for the Dublin Central by-election so far.

Matt says that Fine Gael and Fianna Fail's result is so poor that in any other European country the party leaders would be forced to resign.

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